Grover Cleveland: “I herewith transmit a communication covering dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu.”

I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.

To the Senate:I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the claim of M. A. Cheek against the Siamese Government, with accompanying papers.

There is a further objection to granting this pension.

The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.